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Create less expensive, homemade, and healthier foods by canning and preserving your own foods

Here are five reasons why you should can your own food.

Home Canning Equipment Essentials

O	You know what goes into your food - less ingredients, less allergens = more health. Also, you can control when you bottle your food - when the fruits are perfectly ripe, flavorful, and ready for canning.
O	You can't beat the taste of homemade apple pie filling, cherry pie filling, or pears or perfectly ripe peaches... the list goes on.
O	Your self esteem skyrockets when you can just sit in your storage area and admire the work you have just done knowing you can be self sufficient in these bizarre economic times.
O	Work together with friends and family making it a fun memory making experience, also teaching others how to become more self sufficient and able to enjoy the fruit of their labors.
O	After you purchase or somehow obtain your canning equipment, it really can be less expensive to can your own food, especially when you compare the quality of canned food versus store bought food. Home canned food is just better!

Back to Basics Canning Equipment

We don't offer tons of canning supplies, but we do offer the same canning tools that we use. We have been canning practically my entire life - growing up, it was just something we did. We grew our own food in our garden, then we would spend days at home canning it all. Canning and preserving your own food is not as hard and intimidating as it may seem. It just takes some determination, some time, and most importantly some good canning equipment.

Check out our blog for more canning recipes and ideas for  preserving foods

Sauce Maker and Food Strainer Deluxe
(great for applesauce)

Apple Peeler / Slicer / Corer
suction or clamp base

Steamer Juicer / Cooker

Now available:
Canning bulletins - complete easy to follow instructions